Japanese MMA veteran Yushin Okami will try again to notch his first ONE championship victory when he returns to the promotion on Aug. 2.
Promotion officials recently announced that Okami (35-13) will take on undefeated welterweight prospect James Nakashima (11-0) at “ONE Championship 99: Dawn of Heroes,” which takes place at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila.
As with all ONE Championship events, the night’s main card streams in the U.S. on B/R Live.
A 21-time UFC veteran, Okami debuted for ONE Championship in May, suffering a second-round TKO loss to Kiamrian Abbasov. The 37-year-old Okami stands at just 1-3 in his past four outings overall, a stretch that included three appearances under the UFC banner.
Meanwhile, LFA and RFA veteran Nakashima has competed twice previously for ONE Championship, picking up a TKO win over Luis Santos and a decision win over Raimond Magomedaliev.
With the addition to the card, ONE Championship 99’s MMA lineup now includes:
- Demetrious Johnson vs. Tatsumitsu Wada – flyweight grand prix semifinal
- Eddie Alvarez vs. Eduard Folayang
- Honorio Banario vs. Timofey Nastyukhin – lightweight grand prix semifinal
- Kairat Akhmetov vs. Danny Kingad – flyweight grand prix semifinal
- Reece McLaren vs. Yuya Wakamatsu
- James Nakashima vs. Yushin Okami
- Leandro Issa vs. Daichi Takenaka
- Pongsiri Mitsatit vs. Miao Li Tao
- Xie Bin vs. Edward Kelly
- Ayaka Miura vs. Samara Santos
For more on ONE Championship 99, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.
